No-holds-barred portrait of ballet life

If you’re in the mood for something as light and airy as a sugar plum fairy, well, this gritty eight-part dance drama from 2015 definitely isn’t for you. This is more about the brutality and dysfunction of the ballet world than the glamour. Gifted young

dancer Claire (Sarah Hay) joins a prestigious New York City ballet company and finds out that it’s not all pirouettes and curtain calls. She has to deal with a druggy prima ballerina, jealous rivals in the corps and a volatile, capricious tyrant of an artistic director. Amazon, available now